From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Derived from an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by darkmoon1968
Source Firkin
Dark, crisp and subtle. Tiny black lines on top of some noise.
Source Wilmotte Bastien
From a drawing in 'Artists and Arabs', Henry Blackburn, 1868.
Source Firkin
Small gradient crosses inside 45-degree boxes, or bigger crosses if you will.
Source Wassim
Cubes as far as your eyes can see. You know, because they tile.
Source Jan Meeus
A repeating gloomy background image. This one consists of a pattern of black chains layered on top of a dark textured background.
Source V. Hartikainen
To get the tile this is based on, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
A seamless background drawn in Paint.net and vectorised with Vector Magic. The starting point was a photograph of drinking straws from Pixabay.
Source Firkin
Number 5 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
Fix and cc0 to get the tile this is based on.
Source SliverKnight
Seamless , tileable CC-0 texture. Created by my own, feel free to use wherever you want!
Source Linolafett
Feel free to download and use it, or see the rest of the dark background patterns that I have made. Anyway, I hope you will find something that you like.
Source V. Hartikainen
A dark background pattern/texture of a dimpled metal plate.
Source V. Hartikainen
From a drawing in 'Cowdray: the history of a great English House', Julia Roundell, 1884.
Source Firkin
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
Source Firkin
I’m starting to think I have a concrete wall fetish.
Source Atle Mo
The unit cell for this seamless pattern can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
Source Firkin
Based on an image that was uploaded to Pixabay by devanath
Source Firkin
Zero CC tileable ground cracked, crackled, texture, made by me.
Source Sojan Janso
Remixed from a drawing in 'Chambéry à la fin du XIVe siècle', Timoleon Chapperon, 1863.
Source Firkin
Lovely light gray floral motif with some subtle shades.
Source GraphicsWall
This one is super crisp at 2X. Lined paper with some dust and scratches.
Source HQvectors